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100269

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Employment: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to improve the support available to disabled people in the workplace.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	211336
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Access to Work provides practical and financial support with the additional costs faced by individuals whose health or disability affects the way they do their job.</p><p> </p><p>In response to the Sayce review, the government committed to spending an extra £15m on Access to Work by the end of this Spending Review period. Access to Work has been extended to support some pre-employment activity such as Supported Internships, Traineeships and certain work experience. We no longer apply mandatory cost share for small employers and we have removed the list of standard equipment Access to Work will not fund; instead Access to Work advisers are working constructively with employers and employees to identify where Access to Work can assist.</p><p> </p><p>We have also introduced the Access to Work Mental Health Support Service. This can offer support to individuals with a mental health condition who are absent from work or finding work difficult. The service supports those experiencing depression, anxiety, stress or other mental health issues that are affecting their work.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, Fit for Work will be launched in late 2014 with a phased roll-out coming to a close by the end of May 2015. Fit for Work will deliver both a supportive occupational health assessment and general health and work advice to employees, employers and GPs, to help individuals stay in or return to work.</p><p> </p><p>Finally, Work Choice provides disabled people with complex barriers to employment with a seamless service covering all stages of the journey into work. Short to longer-term in-work support is provided and progression into open unsupported employment is encouraged, where it is appropriate for the individual.</p><p> </p><p>Work Choice can provide an indefinite period of support once the customer is in work in recognition of the fact that some Work Choice participants may need ongoing support to overcome barriers in work that cannot be met through normal workplace adjustments.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 24/10/2014 13:54:32 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

66167

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Air Travel
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on what occasions each Minister within his Department has taken domestic flights on official business since May 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Barrow and Furness
	tabling member printed	John Woodcock
	uin	204299
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The table below details domestic flights taken on official business booked through the Department’s business travel contracts for each Minister within the Department since May 2010. The Crown Dependencies (Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey and the Isle of Man) although not part of the United Kingdom, fall with the Common Travel Area and as such are treated as domestic flights.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Name</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Itinerary</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Date of Travel</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chris Grayling</p></td><td><p>London Gatwick - Aberdeen</p></td><td><p>10/09/2012</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chris Grayling</p></td><td><p>Aberdeen - London Heathrow</p></td><td><p>10/09/2012</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chris Grayling</p></td><td><p>London Gatwick - Belfast City</p></td><td><p>06/02/2013</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chris Grayling</p></td><td><p>Belfast City - London Gatwick</p></td><td><p>06/02/2013</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chris Grayling</p></td><td><p>London Gatwick - Guernsey</p></td><td><p>23/09/2013</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chris Grayling</p></td><td><p>Guernsey - Jersey</p></td><td><p>23/09/2013</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chris Grayling</p></td><td><p>Jersey - London Gatwick</p></td><td><p>24/09/2013</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chris Grayling</p></td><td><p>London Gatwick - Isle Of Man</p></td><td><p>07/07/2014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chris Grayling</p></td><td><p>Isle Of Man - Manchester</p></td><td><p>08/07/2014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chris Grayling</p></td><td><p>London Gatwick - Belfast Intl</p></td><td><p>05/09/2014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chris Grayling</p></td><td><p>Belfast City - London Gatwick</p></td><td><p>05/09/2014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Shailesh Vara</p></td><td><p>London Gatwick - Belfast City, Belfast City - London Gatwick</p></td><td><p>20/05/2014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lord Edward Faulks</p></td><td><p>London City - Isle Of Man, Isle Of Man - London City</p></td><td><p>04/04/2014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lord Edward Faulks</p></td><td><p>London Gatwick - Guernsey</p></td><td><p>19/06/2014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lord Edward Faulks</p></td><td><p>Guernsey - London Gatwick</p></td><td><p>21/06/2014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lord Edward Faulks</p></td><td><p>London Gatwick - Jersey,</p></td><td><p>04/08/2014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lord Edward Faulks</p></td><td><p>Jersey - London Gatwick</p></td><td><p>05/08/2014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jeremy Wright</p></td><td><p>Exeter - Manchester, Manchester - Exeter</p></td><td><p>02/10/2013</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lord Tom McNally</p></td><td><p>London Gatwick - Guersney, Guersney - London Gatwick</p></td><td><p>08/06/2012</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lord Tom McNally</p></td><td><p>London Gatwick - Jersey, Jersey - London Gatwick</p></td><td><p>26/07/2012</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lord Tom McNally</p></td><td><p>London Gatwick - Isle Of Man</p></td><td><p>15/11/2012</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lord Tom McNally</p></td><td><p>Isle Of Man - Blackpool</p></td><td><p>16/11/2012</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lord Tom McNally</p></td><td><p>London Gatwick - Guernsey, Guernsey - London Gatwick</p></td><td><p>16/04/2013</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lord Tom McNally</p></td><td><p>London Gatwick - Jersey, Jersey - London Gatwick</p></td><td><p>14/11/2013</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Simon Hughes</p></td><td><p>London City - Glasgow</p></td><td><p>11/08/2014</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 24/10/2014 13:54:34 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
	tabling member	3917 label Biography information for Lord Walney

100213

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Judicial Review
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many judicial review cases have been successfully brought against her Department in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
	tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
	uin	211302
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2014 answer text <p>No central records are kept of the number of judicial reviews successfully brought against the department since 2010 and it would incur disproportionate cost to try to acquire this information.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 24/10/2014 16:02:04 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 24146 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

100436

	registered interest
	date	22/10/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Media
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many responses her Department's press office has made to enquiries from student journalists in the last year.
	tabling member constituency	Great Grimsby
	tabling member printed	Austin Mitchell
	uin	211447
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2014 answer text <p>The Home Office press office does not collate this data.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 24/10/2014 16:04:01 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	372 label Biography information for Austin Mitchell

93296

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Harassment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many stalking and harassment cases were reported to the police in each year since 2011.
	tabling member constituency	Sittingbourne and Sheppey
	tabling member printed	Gordon Henderson
	uin	210569
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2014 answer text <p>The Home Office does not collect data on the number of offences that are reported to the police. Not all crimes that are reported to the police will be recorded. <br><br>The police started recording stalking offences from April 1st 2014 so at present there is only data for April-June 2014 for this offence. Data on stalking and harassment offences are available in Table A4 of ‘Crime in England and Wales’, published by the ONS each quarter. <br><br>The most recent is available at: <a href="http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/crime-stats/crime-statistics/period-ending-june-2014/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/crime-stats/crime-statistics/period-ending-june-2014/index.html</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Norman Baker question first answered 24/10/2014 14:18:09 answering member 28 label Biography information for Norman Baker
	tabling member	4050 label Biography information for Gordon Henderson

93298

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	City of Derry Airport
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the time taken for the disembarkation of passengers at Londonderry Airport on 27 August 2014 as a result of the unavailability of Border Force personnel is not repeated.
	tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
	tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
	uin	210554
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2014 answer text <p>A full investigation was carried out which included a review of the standard operating procedures. Border Force has worked collaboratively with the airport to strengthen Border Force standard operating procedures for deployments, which have been independently reviewed and implemented.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 24/10/2014 16:42:10 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 22533 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

93301

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Radicalism
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent progress the Government has made on steps to reduce the risk of radicalisation of British Muslims.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	210568
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2014 answer text <p>Since the Prime Minister’s Extremism Task Force (ETF) made its recommendations in December 2013, we have made considerable progress in tackling extremism and <br>reducing the risk of radicalisation. This Government has excluded more hate preachers than ever before, and has regularly disrupted events which feature extremist preachers. We have restricted access to online terrorist material, the majority of which is hosted overseas: since December 2013 we have removed from the internet over 32,000 pieces of unlawful terrorist-related content, taking the overall total to over 51,000 since 2010.</p><p>We have seen a significant rise in referrals to our multi-agency safeguarding programme, Channel, which provides tailored support to people identified as at risk of radicalisation, including from Islamist extremism. The Association of Chief Police Officers reported a 58% increase in the past year. Since April 2012 there have been over 2000 Channel referrals. Hundreds have been offered support under the programme.</p><p>We have made progress with our ‘Workshop to Raise Awareness of Prevent’ (WRAP), a training tool which teaches frontline workers how to identify and support those at risk of radicalisation. Since the revised Prevent strategy (June 2011), we have trained over 100,000 frontline public sector workers to identify and support those at risk. We are currently rolling out new, updated training.In the 2013/14 financial year, Prevent practitioners in our 30 priority areas worked with over 250 mosques, 50 faith groups and 70 community groups. We have delivered over 180 community-based Prevent projects since 2011, and are currently supporting over 70. All of our current Prevent projects are focused on the current threat, including Syria and Iraq. Since early 2012, these projects have reached over 45,000 people.<br><br>In September the Home Secretary announced that the Home Office will now assume responsibility for a new Extremism Strategy. The strategy will aim to build up society to <br>identify extremism, confront it, challenge it and defeat it. It will cover extremism in all its forms, including Islamist extremism.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 24/10/2014 18:03:15 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

93303

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Radicalism: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to prevent children from being radicalised.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	210466
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2014 answer text <p>Since June 2011, Prevent has funded over 180 projects in priority and supported areas. Around a third of these have focused on schools and supplementary schools – protecting children from extremism and radicalisation. Local Authority Prevent Co-ordinators brief head teachers, teachers and safeguarding leads in schools and regularly provide training to frontline staff.</p><p>There are currently seven local authorities who have created specific posts dedicated to working with schools funded by the Home Office. Where these projects have been delivered, areas have reported an increase in teachers’ confidence in identifying and dealing with extremism. The Home Office is working closely with the Department for Education to keep our approach under review and ensure that we are doing all we can to safeguard children and young people.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 24/10/2014 17:49:39 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

93305

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Entry Clearances
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Tier 2 general visas have been (a) made available and (b) issued since the introduction of a cap on those visas in 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
	tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
	uin	210469
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2014 answer text <p>An annual limit on the number of Tier 2 (General) authorisations has been in force since 6 April 2011 and applies to Certificates of Sponsorship issued to non-EEA nationals seeking admission to the UK for the purpose of employment.</p><p><br>This annual limit has stood at 20,700 in each year since 6 April 2011 and is released on a monthly basis. The number of Certificates of Sponsorship made <br>available each month to Tier 2 sponsors under this limit has, since May 2014, been published at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/employer-sponsorship-restricted-certificate-allocations/allocations-of-restricted-certificates-of-sponsorship" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/employer-sponsorship-restricted-certificate-allocations/allocations-of-restricted-certificates-of-sponsorship</a>.<br><br>The number of visas issued to holders of a Tier 2 (General) Certificate of Sponsorship since 2010 is as follows in the Table below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 24/10/2014 17:42:19 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire attachment 1 file name PQ 210469 Table vi 16.10.14.docx title Visas issued
	tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

93306

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Entry Clearances
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Tier 2 general visas have been (a) made available and (b) issued in each of the last three months.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
	tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
	uin	210470
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2014 answer text <p>The total number of Tier 2 (general) entry clearance visas that can potentially be made available to possible applicants, via sponsors, is limited to 20,700 per year.</p><p>In the last quarter for which numbers are available (2014 Q2 April to June) there were 3,299 entry clearance visas granted in this category to applicants overseas (main applicants). Quarterly figures for 2014 Q3 (July to September) will be published on the Home Office website on 27 November as part of the regular quarterly Immigration Statistics, which are available from the Library of the House and at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 24/10/2014 17:45:46 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching